PSYCH 2C03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Sensory Overload, Pluralistic Ignorance, Carnegie Hero Fund
8 Mar 2016
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Positive social behaviour: doing something positive, or good, for someone else. Altruism: often used to refer to selfless helping. Helping others, behaving prosocially, when there is no benefit to the self by doing so. All this does is put your own genes at risk. You are using your time, you are allowing yourself to be physically harmed. Kin selection when we are going to help someone, we will help someone who we are genetically related to, and by helping them, we are helping our genes in someone else"s body. Reciprocation of prosical behaviours if we help someone at one point, others will help us later when we need our help, which will save our genes: kin selection. Inclusive fitness: our fitness is included in their fitness. If they are doing well, copies of our genes are doing well, and therefore we are doing well. Whose genes should we preserve? (a) based on relatedness/kinship. (i. e. twins =
